Photos: Vogue’s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion

Metallics, pleats, and a cool, seventies vibe characterized Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s stellar collection, which drew from the interiors of architects and designers like Joe Colombo and Paul Rudolph, the monumental organic furniture of the Brazilian Sergio Rodrigues, and the North Californian J. B. Blunk.

Photos: Vogue’s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion

You have to love the way Kane describes his collections. Spring, he said, was “sex ed, biology textbooks, and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s paintings of girls being sold in a marketplace in Roman times, with all this drapery and hands plucking their clothes off.”

Photos: Vogue’s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion

If any further proof was needed (and we’re not saying it was) as to how firmly Burberry believes in its fantastic creative director Christopher Bailey, consider that the British house just named Bailey CEO. But before that announcement, the designer turned out a collection of clothes for the dream-girl-next-door in one of the most desirable palettes of the season.

Photos: Vogue’s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion

Whether you see art, feminism, or both when considering Miuccia Prada’s bejewelled, bra-implanted coats, dresses, bags, and furs, there’s no failing to notice the designer’s mastery of pushing fashion toward bold, new territories.

Photos: Vogue’s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion

Marco Zanini’s final collection for Rochas—“a big love letter to [the house],” as he described it, “joyous and cheerful and happy”—summed up the whimsical and charming femininity that he has summoned in his five years at the design helm.

Photos: Vogue’s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion

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Phoebe Philo took everything we’ve known about dressing, flipped it on its head, and made a bold, vaguely African-print top pulled over an accordion-pleated silk skirt with an asymmetric hem feel like the simplest thing to throw on this spring.

Photos: Vogue’s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion

Raf Simons set his Dior show beneath a hanging garden of thousands of lianas and orchids and wisteria, creating an extraordinarily beautiful, layered setting that seemed something of a metaphor for a collection that was jungle-dense with a mash-up of ideas.

Photos: Vogue’s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion

Spring was a tour de force of modern elegance that moved Riccardo Tisci’s Givenchy image forward from the power of his aggressive urban silhouette and his now relentlessly imitated prints and into a gentler, but no less alluring, world.